Healthy Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Muffins
Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins with oatmeal are lightly sweetened with applesauce, brown sugar and molasses. A tasty chocolate treat packed with fall spices and irresistible flavors!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups Oat Flour or gluten free oat flour
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon Cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 3/4 cup Pumpkin Puree
- 1/4 cup Monkfruit Brown Baking Sugar or zero calorie sugar of choice
- 3/4 cup Unsweetened Applesauce
- 1/4 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk or milk of choice
- 1/3 cup Olive Oil or oil of choice
- 2 tablespoons Molasses
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips or dairy free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven 400 F. Prepare a muffin tin by spraying with nonstick cooking spray or placing muffin liners in the cavities.
- Using a or medium bowl with a hand mixer, add pumpkin, applesauce, sugar, oil, milk, molasses and vanilla extract and mix until combined well
- To the batter, add sea salt, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, nutmeg, cloves, baking powder and oat flour
- Mix together lightly until combined then add chocolate chips and fold by hand.
- Divide the batter evenly among 12 cavities, filling 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake 18-20 minutes until a toothpick can be inserted and removed clean.
- Allow muffins to cool in the pan 10 minutes before removing and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Keep muffins in an airtight container to stay fresh.
Notes
- I haven't tested the recipe with other flours, but generally a gluten free 1 to 1 baking flour can be subbed for oat flour or almond flour.
- My Amazon shop has more products similar to those used for this recipe and that I recommend to my weight loss clients.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 174kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 0.5mg | Sodium: 62mg | Potassium: 252mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 2392IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 2mg